Why are Murder rates increasing in the ‘Defund the Police’ zones?

A few days ago, an Italian Ph.D. student at Columbia University, described as ‘brilliant‘ by the institution’s president (an understatement), was stabbed to death by a thug with a monster rap sheet, on probation who appears to have been let out early in Manhattan under calls of “social justice” and an “end to mass incarceration.”

The Columbia students are angry, of course: The candlelight vigils are being held, the flowers are piled in the street, the tears and beating of chests abound. New York Post reports on the university’s execrable record on crime as student after student gets picked off like they were in a ‘B’-grade horror movie

It appears that something is going on here because this was not the only student from an elite school who had been killed in a violent attack on the streets near these elite universities by someone who should have been in prison. Columbia had another attack in 2018 here, as well as this horrific case.

It’s almost as if the ‘Defund the Police’ movement was starting to have some unforeseen consequences.

Well, at least ‘unseen’ by the folks that were pushing the agenda- they seem to think that the crime wave that was bound to follow would miraculously be only focused toward Red-leaning folks.

And we’ve had more than one — at Temple University in Philadelphia, at Morehouse College in Atlanta, at the University of Chicago in Chicago, maybe others. 

But there is a pretty scared thread-the things that seem to be occurring are happening in blue cities, they are happening in places where the police are demonized and defunded by the ruling left, following the Black Lives Matter riots and the Soros-backed district attorneys whose idea of prosecution is either to send these misunderstood individuals out early, give them ridiculously low bail, or just not bother with the paperwork to charge them at all.

Not surprisingly, all of this hothouse-academic radicalism has manifested violent attacks on students-even in ‘woke’ institutions in blue cities.

And, of course, the groups responsible for putting these ‘ethically-challenged™’ folks (see? I CAN be politically correct) are strangely silent in the wake of these particular birds coming to roost.

Students are angry and calling for more security around campus, and some are hollering about Columbia’s billion-dollar endowment. Security promises are made at the school, but skepticism abounds. Since schools are only responsible for their immediate campuses, the areas surrounding them are where radical ideas are implemented, and where the police are defunded.

Apparently, that “No Murder Allowed on School Grounds” policy isn’t carrying quite the weight that it should have,-it’s almost as if the bad guys don’t follow the rules.

Columbia is a cesspool of political correctness. I’ve met lefties who teach there who wouldn’t be caught dead laughing at a joke because it’s such a bastion of PC and ‘Woke’ culture.

And who are some of the shining stars at Columbia that are surprisingly silent about a brutal murder on hallowed ground?

Let’s begin with Kathy Boudin, a convicted cop killer and leftist revolutionary who spent her motherhood time in jail while her baby son Chesa Boudin was raised in Chicago by Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, co-founders of the Weather Underground, who organized a series of bombings of public buildings to protest U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War and who lived underground as fugitives for many years. 

Chesa grew up to be a Soros funded D.A.-with the predictable wave of havoc that inevitably follows.

 Boudin herself is now some kind of demigod at Columbia with a fairly polished CV Check out this bio:

Dr. Kathy Boudin is the Co-Director and Co-Founder of the Center for Justice at Columbia University. Her work focuses on the causes and consequences of mass incarceration, and the development of strategies to both transform the current criminal justice system and to deal with the day-to-day damage that the system has caused. In prison, she focused on strengthening mother-child relationships across the separation of incarceration, bringing back college to Bedford Hills Correctional Facility after the termination of the Pell grants, and building a community response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

After her release from prison in 2003, Dr. Boudin founded the Coming Home Program at the Spencer Cox Center for Health, Mt. Sinai/St.Luke’s, which provides healthcare for people returning from incarceration. She also developed a restorative practice program inside prisons for long-termers, many of whom were sentenced as juveniles, and is developing policy initiatives to release aging people from prison and to reform the parole system. Her work is based on participation and leadership from those who are most deeply affected by mass incarceration.

So, of course she had a lot to say about this misunderstood murderer, and how her philosophies and beliefs could help make the would a better place.

Transcript follows:

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Amazingly, there neve seems to be any commentary when the predictable consequences of one’s actions actually show up.

One wonders if any of the Columbia students realize that their calls for security are the same as those of the truly poor and deprived in the inner cities who endure runaway crime with no consequences, based on these Boudin-supported academic “teachings.”

 The same calls that could have been answered by people with badges-the very people that these folks have totally run off.

These folks fuss about the building of the dam, and then can’t understand why they don’t have any water. But fear not; the spin0doctors are at full throttle, and a rational explanation of why a suicidal attitude that-surprise!-is starting to result in deaths is really the fault of conservatives.